decay
美 [dɪˈkeɪ] 
英 [dɪ'keɪ]
- v.衰减；腐朽；衰败
- n.腐烂；衰退；腐朽
- 网络衰变；腐败
词形变化
第三人称单数：decays 现在分词：decaying 过去式：decayed 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | 腐烂；腐朽the process or result of being destroyed by natural causes or by not being cared for (= of decaying) |
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| The landlord had let the building fall into decay . 房东任由房子变得破烂不堪。 |
| The smell of death and decay hung over the town. 城镇上空弥漫着死亡和腐烂的气味。 |
2. | （社会、机构、制度等的）衰败，衰退，衰落the gradual destruction of a society, an institution, a system, etc. |
| economic/moral/urban decay 经济衰退；道德败坏；城市衰落 |
| the decay of the old industries 旧工业的衰败 |
1. | [i][t] ~ (sth) （使）腐烂，腐朽to be destroyed gradually by natural processes; to destroy sth in this way |
| decaying leaves/teeth/food 烂叶；蛀齿；腐烂食物 |
2. | [i] （建筑、地方等）破败，衰落，衰败if a building or an areadecays , its condition slowly becomes worse |
| decaying inner city areas 衰败中的内城区 |
3. | [i] （力量、影响等）衰弱，衰退，衰减to become less powerful and lose influence over people, society, etc. |
| decaying standards of morality 日趋低下的道德标准 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Giant detectors built to look for a hypothetical form of radioactivity in which protons decay never found such a thing.
为了探测质子衰变放射性的假想形式，人们修建了巨大的探测器，但这些探测器从没发现这种东西。
It had been used for practical ends, to identify elements and to unravel radioactive decay chains.
已将其用于实践的目的，去鉴别元素和阐明放射性衰变系。
The only thing that makes sense to me is to identify when a method is starting to decay and replace it with one that isn't.
对于我来说唯一有意义的事情是识别什么时候一个方法开始衰减，并用一个没有衰减的方法替换它。
Rising crime is often cited as a prime example of mounting social decay .
犯罪的上升经常被当作越来越严重的社会倒退的主要例子。
The high aid new technology represents the present technical progress which can create remarkable economic efficiency, but easy to decay.
高新技术代表当今科技的最新进展，能创造出显著的经济效益，但也具有明显的易逝性。
The wind was blowing the autumn decay around the forest, stirring up a symphony of sounds my attention drew increasingly closer to.
秋风吹过衰败的树林，仿佛一曲交响乐，越来越引起我的注意。
Exactly what has scientists so on edge is the fact that the natural rate of decay of atomic particles has always been predictable.
确切的说，令科学家们如此紧张不安的是，原子微粒的自然衰变率曾经一直是可预测的。
"Radiogenic decay is at a constant rate over the aeons, which can be measured by physically counting particles, " explained Bouvier.
Bouvier解释说：“放射性衰减亘古恒定不变，由此其可以通过物理学的颗粒计数来测量。”
Others call it a shout-out to the man who studied microbial decay, brought you spoilage-resistant milk and found a vaccine for rabies.
还有人认为把这认为是巴斯德的一种留言或者是警示，而巴斯德研究微生物衰变，并为我们研究出了抗腐败牛奶以及发现了狂犬疫苗。
Day continued to broadcast on the loss of human nature, moral decay is the thing it is often seen.
每天陆陆续续播报的关于人性缺失，道德沦丧的事情已经是屡见不鲜了。
Some of these particles are stable and form the normal matter, the others live for fractions of a second and then decay to the stable ones.
这些粒子中的一部分是稳定的并且构成了普通物质，其它的只存在一秒钟的几分之一，然后衰变为稳定粒子。
SK: Tell me more about this sense of death and decay I feel regarding the structures that I'm interacting with.
莎莉：请告诉我更多一些，在我正在与之交互作用的（矩阵）结构中，我感觉到的这种死亡和衰退的感觉。
The savage sun beat down like a drum, and a perverse part of me thought that it was a wonderful day to decay.
凶猛的烈日晒得我火辣辣，我异乎寻常地想到，今天真是个让尸体腐烂的好日子。
Her mother was constantly imploring her not to allow herself to decay, as she had done.
她母亲一再要求她别让自己堕落，并以她本人为前车之鉴。
"There was active-enough chemistry in the sediments that the decay process didn't occur as quickly as the mineralization process, " he said.
“沉积物中有积极的，足够的化学物质，（它的）衰变过程没有同成矿过程一样快，”他说。
The Higgs should occasionally decay into a pair of photons, which would produce a bump in the photon-pair energy distribution.
偶尔，玻色子会衰变为一对光子，光子纠缠对能量分布不均可能产生效应。
properties: absorbent, flexibility is good, comfortable, not easy corrugate, more wear-resisting, but easy to mildew easy to decay.
物理性能：吸湿性强、弹性好、手感舒适、不易起皱、较为耐磨、但易霉易蛀。
He was a throwback to the Victorian era when it was thought moral decay had to be combated by a regime of fitness for the mind and body.
他是维多利亚时代的一个大逆转，那个时候普遍认为道德沦丧必须靠强健的身体素质和心理素质来改变。
None of the bodies discovered so far have been identified because they were in such an advanced state of decay.
至今没有一具尸体被鉴别出来，因为他们已经高度腐烂。
This concern is still of the intellect and doesn't spring, does it, from a real concern at the decay of your feeling, which is part of you?
这种关注依然是智力上的，而不是源于对你衰退的感受的真正关心，而你的感受正是你的一部分，不是吗？
Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating.
介壳与骨骼若落在海底，而不为沉淀物所掩盖，也便腐烂而消灭。
He is not aiming to get the concrete facts of the rise and the decay of any particular city.
他不是着眼于某个特定城市兴衰的具体事实。
The actual rate of decay may be somewhat greater or less than this expected rate.
衰变的实际速率可以比这个预期速率稍大些或稍小些。
It was feared that without some forms of Americanization immigrants would cause a rapid decay of American institutions.
人们担心，没有某种形式的美国化，移民将会导致美国制度的迅速解体。
Oil is formed by the decay of animal, and possibly some plant, remains in a reducing environment in sedimentary deposits.
石油是在沉积物还原环境中由动物遗骸，可能还有一些植物遗骸的分解所形成的。
Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay.
大多数的树木都已腐烂不堪，一拉就碎，木屑四飞，还有纷扬的树虱和烂物。
That university has fallen into decay in the last 100 years.
那所大学过去一百年来逐渐没落了。
From their work emerged the picture of radioactive decay that is still valid-a violently disruptive explosion of a single atom.
根据他们的工作，展现出至今仍然成立的关于放射性衰变的图象--单个原子的强烈的分裂性爆炸。
It is easy to show, for an exponential decay, that the uncertainty in the life time is also z.
很容易证明，对于指数衰减来说，寿命的不确定性也是z。
But this effect is balanced out by the anti-X particle, which tends to decay more often to "hidden" antiparticle pairs than to antineutrons.
但是这个现象被反”X“粒子抵消了：反”X“粒子更倾向于衰变为未知的两种反粒子而不是反中子。
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives.
今天的伯帝保存了那种腐朽死寂的状态，只有一小部分建筑还有人气。
It will be a time of the sword, of warfare, not of peace, because there is so much corruption and decay.
将会有一段刀兵相见、战火纷飞而不是和平的时期，因为存在着太多的腐朽和衰败了。
These plastic items, as you all might be aware of, take tens and thousands of years to decay.
如众所知，这些塑料制品于数十、数千年后才可能分解。
She also said that the experiment had another part, involving _two_ universes around the choice point of the time of decay of the atom.
她还说，这个实验还有另外一个部分，是关于在原子衰变的刹那间的两个宇宙。
if it has green plants materials added to it, helps to stop tooth decay .
如果添加了叶绿素就能够防止蛀牙。
Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating.
介壳与骨骼若落在海底，而不为沉淀物所掩盖，也便腐烂而消灭。
Check back in a few hours to compare the rate of decay and the resulting smells.
几小时后，比较两者的腐烂速度和气味。
It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.
更深地说，这其实标志着自己道德本性的腐败和消逝，是空虚，是挣扎以求生存的障碍。
It was like a journey through a very old painting, rich with grandeur and decay.
就像在一幅古老的图画里旅行，有一点辉煌，有一点朽败。
The xylitol is proven to help fight decay, and I recommend sugar free gum with this ingredient to my adult patients.
木糖醇能够有效防止蛀牙，我建议成人患者运用无糖成分的。
They also discovered that the more stressed parents are, the more likely their children were to have decay.
他们还发现父母的压力越大，孩子越容易患龋齿。
The strength and decay rate of biodegradable fixation device can be monitored and improved by means of in vitro degradation tests.
目前可降解式固定器所面临最大的难题在于强度的大小及降解时间的维持。
Transport of a two-member decay chain of radionuclides through a discrete fracture in a porous rock matrix in the presence of colloids.
放射性核素双数衰变链通过胶体中多孔岩石基质不连续断裂的输运…[中国核科技信息与经济研究院]。
As the attachment leaves, the pockets of decay and scar tissue can be transmuted upon a biological level within the form.
当连线离开时，衰退及伤疤组织的小块可在身体内的生物体水平上变异。
Years ago, I noticed that if I go to bed without sex I begin to pick up some decay along the gum line.
很多年前，我就注意到如果我不做爱就睡觉的话，牙龈就会发炎溃烂。
Despite its decay, the Great Wall remains one of China's most popular tourist attractions and a true wonder of the world.
虽然状况堪扰，长城仍然是中国吸引人的游览胜地之一，也是一座真正的世界奇观。
In the following century the power of the Ahoms began to decay, alike from internal dissensions and the pressure of outside invaders.
在接下来的世纪里，由于国内纷争和外来入侵者的压迫，阿霍姆人的力量开始衰退。
She will decay in her sheath, as a narcissus will, if you do not give her air enough.
她象一棵水仙花，如果你不给她足够的空气，她会在自己的紧身衣中腐烂。
Clean the teeth at least twice a day to avoid tooth decay (cavities) and to have nice breath.
每天两次清洁牙齿，避免蛀牙（龋齿）。
